Over the past several weeks, trillions of dollars (a trillion is a
one followed by twelve zeroes, a thousand times a billion) have been
stolen from the American Productive Class by a criminal organization
that calls itself the Democratic Party. Trillions more are being
manufactured now, at its bequest, out of thin air, by government
printing presses and the extension of fairy-dust credit, in the name
of repairing what historians will someday call the Great Depression
II.

The legendary looters of historyAttila the Hun comes to mindwould
bawl unconsolably to learn that everything they ever stole
over a lifetime wouldn't amount to a drop in the ocean of this theft.
The trouble, of course, is that it won't work (it isn't really meant
to), it can't work, it has never worked, and it never willas the
Democrats understand perfectly well. It is, in fact, the very kind of
statist skullduggery that got all of us into this mess in the first
place.

Look: the Great Depression I became inevitable when, under the
Federal Reserve Act of 1913, a small handful of crooks acquired the
power to decideto commandwhat the rate for lending money would
be.

Historically, this kind of thing was decided in the free market,
where millions of individual choices determined the ratethe
interest rateat which money was to be lent. In good times, it
would be cheaper to borrow money, but in bad times, lenders were
rather less enthusiastic about taking risks, and their lack of
enthusiasm was expressed as a higher rate of interest, a kind of
credit rationing process. People became more careful with whatever
money they did have, they "husbanded" their resources, trimmed the fat
in their economic lives, liquidated bad investments, kicked their
brothers-in-law out of the house, and made their sons-in-law get a
job. Eventually, times got better againusually in just a few
weeks.

Members of the Productive Class were lied to, however. They were
told, by the puppet media and the public school system, that massive
fluctuations in the economycalled "panics" back in those dayswere
caused by the private market, rather than by the government. They
willingly let the monetary system be handed over to a gang of crooked
mercantilists.

With the twisted gnomes of the Federal Reserve in control,
interest rates were kept artificially low for transparently corrupt
reasons (politically, for example, low rates are extremely popular
with voters, and therefore with politiciansthe Fed is, first and
foremost, a political institution), and a huge credit bubble began to
build, made up of hot air and bad economic choices which would never
have been made if money had been "tighter". Would-be entrepreneurs
borrowed money for all sorts of dubious enterprises and then were
unable to pay it back. When the bubble "burst", initiating a titanic
cascade of loan defaults and bank failures, we called it the Great
Depression.

And when the Franklin Roosevelt Administration tried to fix the
messmuch the same way the Obama Administration claims it is doing
nowinstead of lasting for a few weeks, the Great Depression lasted
twelve years. The difference is that Obama's people know better and
are using their inflationary wrecking ball on the American economy
anyway.

The question everybody seems to be asking is, "Why"?

The current depression was born when the administration of Jimmy
Carter, and a Democratic Congress, irrationally demanded that lenders
approve mortgages for individuals who really couldn't afford them and
would almost certainly never be able to pay them back. The political
strategy of giving goodies away like this, in exchange for votes and
other kinds of popular support, was probably old hat by the time the
Romans got around to plying urban tenement dwellers with bread and
circuses.

At the same time, housing for the poor appears to be some kind of
bizarre obsessive-compulsive fetish for President Peanut. He's spent
decades since his deeply flawed and humiliatingly failed presidency,
hammering nails into future residences under the Habitat for Humanity
program. How ironic it is that, just as the economy begins collapsing,
so are the former president's shoddily-constructed houses across the
country.

The Depression-to-be got another big boost when Bill Clinton and
his minions, instead of shutting down Carter's massively inflationary
program as they should have, increased it geometrically, flooding the
economy with more counterfeit money and empty credit. To some economic
observers, it meant that massive inflation lay just around the corner.
In fact, inflation was already here, in the guise of obscenely high
prices for homes, and prices for stock that had no connection with
reality.

Nobody can blame Wall Street or the bankers for that (although
they're guilty of other crimes, like fractional reserve banking). They
were simply doing exactly as they had been told, operating in a market
severely distorted by government interference). Nor did it help things
when George W. Bush reacted just as irrationally as Carter and the
Democrats had, invading two middle eastern countries, following 9/11,
that had had nothing to do with what had happened that morning. Those
wars are still ongoing, paid for by hundreds of billions of dollars in
paper currency and credit. Republicans who cheered Bush on have as
much to answer for during this wholly unnecessary crisis as do the
Democrats.

Enter the God-King, Barack Obama, trumpeted in amidst the noise
and dust of collapsing financial institutions, institutions that had
loaned out trillions to unreliable borrowers and were now unable to
get the money back to pay their own debts, It was a catastrophe more
spectacular and dangerous to western civilization than the destruction
of one side of the Pentagon and a handful of tall buildings in New
York.

I'm speaking here of the election, not the financial collapse.

Virtually the first thing the new boss did was start handing out
unprecedented trillions to those very failed and failing institutions,
a recipe for (A) rewarding failure, (B) punishing to the point of what
Skinnerian Behaviorists called "extinction" those who wished to make
it on their own, but could only watch helplessly as their resources
were expropriated to be consumed by those who harbored no such wish,
and (C) turning prospects of inflation into a near-certainty of
hyperinflation of a kind not seen since the pre-war Weimar Republic,
when people took wheelbarrows of paper money to buy bread, or post-war
Hungary, where 13 trillion paper Pengoes became equal to one gold
Pengo.

I maintain that Obama and his henchpersons know perfectly well what
they're doing to what was once the most peaceful, prosperous, and
progressive nation-state in human history, and that they're doing it
deliberately.

In Cambodia (hang in there, I'm not really changing the subject),
between 1975 and 1979, Communists calling themselves the Khmer Rouge
managed to murder somewhere between a quarter and a third of their
nation's population, about two million individuals in all, mostly by
driving them out of the big cities, where they had lived more or less
normal 20th century Productive Class lives, and marching them out into
the open countryside where they were commanded to cast off the western
influences dominating their lives and start over again virtually as
prehistoric farmers. Those who didn't survive the march or couldn't
make the change were beaten to death with shovels in order to save
ammunition.

While most of the world (including the United States government
and media) turned a blind eye on this atrocityJoan Baez refused
to; she spoke out against what was happening in Cambodia, only to find
herself bitterly criticized by Jane Fonda who maintained that good
socialists must never speak ill of other socialiststhe Communist
government of neighboring Vietnam finally had enough. They invaded
Cambodia, stopped the killings, and drove the Khmer Rouge out of the
country.

For which they should have gotten a Nobel Peace Prize.

It's hard to believe that people can do these kinds of things to
one another, but human experience indicates that it happens all the
time. Lenin killed tens of thousands of his own people. Stalin killed
tens of millions. Mao killed many more. Hitler fits in somewhere
between Lenin and Stalin. But proportionately, the Khmer Rouge are the
champions.

Of mass murder.

The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental
illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their
bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to
examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically
unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because
socialism is a mindset that regards the individualand his rightsas
insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the
group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire
power.

Even Amnesty International calls socialist governments "killing
machines". Maybe they said "communist"no significant difference,
really. They're just brand-names. To both, the individualthat's
you and meis wholly expendable in the name of the all-important
collective. Republicans are socialists, in the sacred, collectivist
names of national security, tradition, the patriarchal family, and
God.

Obama keeps talking about change, about hope, and about remaking
America. A clue to what he really has in mind can be discovered in a
United Nations documententhusiastically supported by most American
politicianscalled "Agenda 21". Under this plan, devised for us in
1992 by humanity's mortal enemies within the UN, every person on this
continent will be rounded up and forced to live in "arcologies", vast
piles of thousands of apartments, stacked one upon another. If you've
ever seen a typical Japanese apartmentKen Takakura's dwelling in
the 1989 movie
Black
Rain, for exampleyou'll have a pretty good idea.

Life in a shoebox.

Life in a cell.

With humanity thus containedquarantinedas if it were some
kind of disease (an article of leftist dogma since the 1960s), rather
than the pinnacle of evolution that it truly is, the countryside will
be emptied, cleared of all human artifacts and other traces, and, in
keeping with current environmentalist insanity, allowed to return to
its "natural state". Except, that's never how it really works
out.

Instead, said empty countryside will become a playground for the
socialist elite, the nomenklatura as they were known in bad old
Soviet Russia, who will vacation there, perhaps even dwell or retire
there in an aristocratic splendor that the peasants, crowded together
in their dark, dirty, crumbling hundred-story warrens (with the
exception, of course, of the young, attractive slaves they select to
take with them in the name of "National Service"), won't be allowed to
see.

Understand: none of this can happen unless these would-be aristos
like Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, and Frank fail to achieve certain
preliminaries. The first is to destroy the economic structure of the
United States. The second is to thoroughly discredit anyone who dares
to oppose them and mentally condition coming generations to serfdom.
The third is to remove all weapons from the hands of the Productive
Class so they won't be able to resist being rounded up and penned like
cattle.

Judge for yourself how much of their agenda they've completed so
far. Then consider what it will take, not just to slow them down here
and there, but to stop them, once and for all, forever. I believe that
if as few as ten million Americans knew about Agenda 21, and fully
understood what it means for them and their children, that would do
it. These criminal parasites need darkness to do their dirty work,
and, like the soul-sucking vampires they are, they hate the light of
day.

As I said, it's hard to believe that people do these kinds of
things to one another. It's harder still to believe that they can
happen here, in what used to be America. But try looking up how the
English upper class treated a conquered Scotland; the keyword is
"clearances".

So the first thing that must be done is to spread the word. Begin
with this essay. Send it to everyone you know, at least a dozen
people. Yes, you may very well be laughed at as a conspiracy nut, but
you now know why Obama seems to be deliberately wrecking the American
economy.

It's because he is deliberately wrecking the American economy.

And being laughed at by idiots is a tiny thingthey laughed at
me when I predicted the collapse of the Soviet Empire back in the
1970scompared to the enslavement and dehumanization potentially staring
us all in the face. The Founding Fathersconspirators themselves,
and, according to the leading lights of today's New World Order,
terroristspledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred
honor.

Are you prepared merely to forward something in e-mail?

Four-time Prometheus Award-winner L. Neil Smith has
been called one of the world's foremost authorities on the ethics
of self-defense. He is the author of 25 books, including The
American Zone, Forge of the Elders, Pallas, The Probability Broach,
Hope (with Aaron Zelman), and his collected articles and speeches,
Lever Action, all of which may be purchased through his website
"The Webley Page" at
lneilsmith.org.

Ceres, an exciting sequel to Neil's 1993 Ngu family novel
Pallas was recently completed and is presently looking for a
literary home.

Neil is presently working on Ares, the middle volume of the
epic Ngu Family Cycle, and on Roswell, Texas, with Rex F. "Baloo"
May.

The stunning 185-page full-color graphic-novelized version of The
Probability Broach, which features the art of Scott Bieser and was
published by BigHead Press
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has recently won a Special Prometheus Award. It may be had through the publisher, or at
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